Out in the World:
Ireland’s LGBTQ+ DiasporA
April 2022 to March 2023
About the Exhibition
Across the generations, Irish LGBTQ+ people have emigrated and found opportunities to live and love abroad. Yet this journey was rarely a simple transition from an oppressive island to a liberal wider world. Irish LGBTQ+ emigrants often faced prejudice abroad. Home, once a place of shame and silence, could also become a welcoming site of return.
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum, in partnership with the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, are proud to play a role in illuminating this hidden history of Irish emigration in the exhibition Out in the World. Across six themes—exclusion, community, love, defiance, solidarity and return—Out in the World highlights 12 stories from the vast history of Ireland’s LGBTQ+ diaspora. The exhibition also features an artwork by award-winning Irish designer and multidisciplinary artist Richard Malone.
This exhibition was on view at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum in Dublin from June 8 to January 16, 2022. The exhibition is now touring select locations across the world in 2022. The GLBT Historical Society is proud to inaugurate the exhibition’s run in the United States at the GLBT Historical Society Museum.
About the Curator
Dr. Maurice J. Casey @MauriceJCasey is the current Department of Foreign Affairs Historian-in-Residence at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum. Prior to starting this role, he completed his doctorate in History at the University of Oxford in 2020. He also studied at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Cambridge and Stanford University, where he was a Fulbright visiting researcher from 2018 to 2019. His expertise lies in the history of grassroots activism in modern Ireland and Irish contributions to radical and progressive political movements abroad.
Banner photos. Exclusion: Public Domain, Charles E. Feinberg Collection, Library of Congress. Community: photograph by Ruth Goodwin Love, Public Domain, Charles E. Feinberg Collection, Library of Congress. Defiance: photograph by Diana Davies, New York Public Library. Solidarity: photograph by Chancellor Dublin, Public Domain, Library of Congress. Return: Photograph by Sam Boal, RollingNews.ie.